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Untitled (River, Hong Kong or Macau, China)
About the Artwork
A young art form, photography had not yet fully developed its own visual traditions when William Pryor Floyd was working, so he often borrowed compositional formats from classical landscape painting. Here, he instead daringly placed the stream right in the middle of this composition. It wends its way in gentle S curves into the distance, drawing the viewer’s eye up and across the picture plane, until it disappears into distant trees.
Provenance
Alexander Young Herries [1827-1918] ?-2020: (Pump Park Vintage Photography, Co. Down, Ireland) September 14, 2020: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Pryor Floyd (British, 1834–c. 1900)
- Date
- 1866–73
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.9 x 27.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 in.); Paper: 21.9 x 27.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 in.); Mounted: 26.8 x 34.1 cm (10 9/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Photography Fund
- Accession no.
- 2020.235
More by William Pryor Floyd in museum collections
Untitled (General view of Hong Kong from the Scandal Point looking west)
William Pryor Floyd1866–73 · Photograph
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00012749
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